Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master.
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections.